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Both the concept of fate and free will played an equal part in Oedipus' destruction. Although he was a victim of fate, he was not controlled by it. Oedipus was cursed from birth to someday marry his mother and to murder his father. This prophecy, as warned by the oracle of Apollo was going to come true (as written in his fate), no matter what he may have done to avoid it. Whatever he did in the past, when he was born to manhood in Corinth, was his fate. And what he did at Thebes was his own free will. From the beginning of this tragedy, Oedipus took many actions leading to his own downfall. When he heard that Apollo said some unclean thing was the reason o